THE QUEST

by: Eva Gore-Booth (1870-1926)

      OR years I sought the Many in the One,
      I thought to find lost waves and broken rays,
      The rainbow’s faded colours in the sun--
      The dawns and twilights of forgotten days.
       
      But now I seek the One in every form,
      Scorning no vision that a dewdrop holds,
      The gentle Light that shines behind the storm,
      The Dream that many a twilight hour enfolds.

"The Quest" is reprinted from The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse. Ed. Nicholson & Lee. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1917.

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